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Graham R. Fleming
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| Born | Barrow, England 1949
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| Doctoral advisor | George Porter |
| Other academic advisors | George Wilse Robinson |
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Graham R. Fleming is a well-known professor of chemistry. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also part of the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute there.
Professor Fleming and his team study how energy moves in very tiny systems. They use special tools to watch these energy movements super fast. This helps them understand how things like plants capture sunlight for energy.
His research has shown that tiny energy units, called "quantum coherence," are very important. These tiny energy units help living things collect energy. This work helps us learn more about how nature uses energy.
Early Life and Education
Graham R. Fleming was born on December 3, 1949, in Barrow, England. He loved chemistry from a young age.
He earned his first degree in chemistry from the University of Bristol in 1971. Later, he got his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1974. He studied at both the University College London and the Royal Institution.
After his Ph.D., he worked as a researcher at several places. These included the California Institute of Technology and the University of Melbourne.
A Career in Science
In 1979, Professor Fleming started his own research team. He became a professor at the University of Chicago. He quickly moved up, becoming a full professor in 1985.
He was even named the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Services Professor. This was a special honor he held for ten years. He also led the chemistry department at the University of Chicago for three years.
While at Chicago, he helped create a new research center. It was called the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics. This was the first new research institute at the university in 50 years.
Moving to California
In 1997, Professor Fleming moved his research team to the University of California, Berkeley. There, he became a professor of chemistry. He also helped start the physical biosciences division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
In 2002, he received another special title. He became the Melvin Calvin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UCB. He also helped create the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3).
From 2009 to 2015, he served as the vice-chancellor for research at UCB. This means he helped guide all the research happening at the university.
Awards and Honors
Professor Fleming has received many awards for his important work. Here are some of them:
- He became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991.
- He was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1994.
- He received an award from the Inter-American Photochemical Society in 1996.
- The Royal Society of Chemistry gave him an award in 1996.
- He won the Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry in 1998.
- He received the Harrison Howe Award in Physical Chemistry in 1999.
- He won the Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy in 2002.
- He became a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2007.
- He received the Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology in 2008.
- He won the Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in 2009.
